Edge of Irony - Modernism in the Shadow of the Habsburg Empire

Marjorie Perloff identifies and explores the aesthetic world that emerged from the rubble of Vienna and other former Habsburg territories--an "Austro-Modernism" that produced a major body of drama, fiction, poetry, and autobiography.

About the author

Marjorie Perloff (1931-2024) was the Sadie Dernham Patek Professor of Humanities at Stanford University and the Florence R. Scott Professor of English Emerita at the University of Southern California. She is the author of many books, including Poetics in a New Key and Unoriginal Genius, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

Summary

Marjorie Perloff identifies and explores the aesthetic world that emerged from the rubble of Vienna and other former Habsburg territories--an "Austro-Modernism" that produced a major body of drama, fiction, poetry, and autobiography.

Product details

• Authors: Marjorie Perloff, Perloff Marjorie
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2018
• EAN: 9780226566177
• ISBN: 978-0-226-56617-7
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; HISTORY / Europe / Germany, Eastern Europe, European History, Germany, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German, HISTORY / Europe / Eastern, HISTORY / Europe / Austria & Hungary, Literature: history & criticism, Empires & historical states, Literature: history and criticism, Austro-Hungarian Empire, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Eastern